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Swimming Pool in Water Park Tembesi - full attraction for visitors with various water games and also provide gymnastic room and free internet (WIFI)
Lifestyle   Nigeria   Photos   Water   Wikipedia: Swimming pool   		 The Guardian 
The Swimming Pool by Jekwu Anyaegbuna
Sat 16 Mar 2013
General Idris Yakuba Haruna is in expansive mood, recounting the ups and downs of his career as the Nigerian Minister of Water Resources in this short story from Jekwu Anyaegbuna | 'They put up an aut... (photo: WN / Emico Silalahi)
C-34 Peacekeeping Committee - first meeting of the 2012 session. Speakers: Ambassador Jean-Francis Rgis Zinsou, Permanent Representative of Benin, Acting General Assembly President; Chairperson Joy Ogwu, PR for Nigeria; Herv Ladsous, USG for DPKO; Susana Malcorra, USG for DFS. Also present: military advisors.
Corruption   Nigeria   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Nigeria   		 Herald Tribune 
US criticizes Nigeria's pardon of corrupt official
Fri 15 Mar 2013
LAGOS, Nigeria - The United States has criticized Nigeria for issuing a pardon to a former governor convicted of corruption who is a political confidant of the nation's president. | In messages Friday... (photo: UN / UN)
Bharti Airtel - no. one GSM service provider in India  IIFL  Wed 13 Mar 2013
Bharti Airtel inches up after raising stake in Nigerian unit
The company made the announcement during trading hours today, 13 March 2013. | Meanwhile, the S&P; BSE Sensex was down 124.40 points or 0.64% at 19,440.52. | On BSE, 2.15 lakh shares were traded in the... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Economy   Market   Photos   Stock   Wikipedia: Bharti Airtel  
A man reads a local newspapers with the headline 'We've killed 7 foreign hostages' on a street in Kano, Nigeria, Sunday, March. 10, 2013. The United Kingdom's military says its warplanes recently spotted in Nigeria's capital city were there to move soldiers to aid the French intervention in Mali, not to rescue kidnapped foreign hostages. The Ministry of Defense said Sunday that the planes had ferried Nigerian troops and equipment to Bamako, Mali. An Islamic extremist group in Nigeria called Ansa  The Australian  Mon 11 Mar 2013
Nigerian Islamist fighters kill 7 foreigners, says UK, Italy and Greece
RADICAL Islamic fighters killed seven foreign hostages in Nigeria, European diplomats have said, making it the worst such kidnapping violence in decades for a country beset by extremist guerrilla atta... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
Islamist   Kidnapping   Nigeria   Photos   Wikipedia: Ansaru  
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Nigerian police officers stand guard in the area were the military are battling gunmen in Kano, northern Nigeria, Wednesday April 18, 2007. The Guardian Sun 10 Mar 2013
Ansaru, the Islamist group behind foreign hostage killings in Nigeria
Vanguard for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa appears determined to drag foreign governments into domestic conflict | An image reportedly showing members of Ansa... (photo: AP / George Osodi)
Islamist   Killings   Nigeria   Photos   Wikipedia: Ansaru  
Militants wearing black masks, military fatigues and carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers patrol the creeks of the Niger Delta area of Nigeria, Friday, Feb. 24, 2006.Armed militants holding nine foreign oil workers h Al Jazeera Sat 9 Mar 2013
Foreign captives 'killed' in Nigeria
Nigeria-based group Ansaru has said it killed seven foreign hostages it had seized on February 7 from a construction company in Nigeria, SITE Monitoring Se... (photo: AP Photo/George Osodi)
Ansaru   Kidnapping   Nigeria   Photos   Wikipedia: Ansaru  
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meeting with Nigerian Acting President Goodluck Jonathan at the Nuclear Security Summit. BBC News Fri 8 Mar 2013
Nigeria's president rejects Boko Haram amnesty call
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan says his government cannot grant an amnesty to the militant Islamist group Boko Haram because it is not known who its members are or ... (photo: UN / UN)
Nigeria   Peace   Photos   Violence   Wikipedia: Boko Haram  
Soldiers stand guards outside St. Rita's Catholic church following a suicide bombing in Kaduna, Nigeria, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. The Guardian Sun 3 Mar 2013
Boko Haram leader denies peace talks with Nigeria
HARUNA UMAR | Associated Press= MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — The leader of the radical Islamic terrorist network Boko Haram has denied his group is taking part in any peac... (photo: AP)
Nigeria   Peace   Photos   Violence   Wikipedia: Boko Haram  
In this image taken Thursday Feb. 28, 2013 residents salvage wood from demolished houses at Ijora Badia slum in Lagos, Nigeria. The New York Times Sat 2 Mar 2013
Nigerian City’s Homeless Are Increasingly Paying the Price of Progress
LAGOS, Nigeria — The young man with the crowbar stood on a heap of rubble — planks, pallets, remains of pots, bits of cardboard, wisps of clothing, chunks of ... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
Construction Activity   Lagos   Nigeria   Photos   Wikipedia: Lagos  
In this Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 photo, a police officer armed with an AK-47 rifle walks past pedestrians as he patrols a major road in Maiduguri, Nigeria. The radical sect Boko Haram, which in August 2011 bombed the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria, is the gravest security threat to Africa's most populous nation. The New York Times Tue 26 Feb 2013
Video Shows Group Holds Family Seized In Cameroon
LAGOS, Nigeria — A French family kidnapped last week on the Cameroon-Nigeria border appeared on a video posted Monday on YouTube, with one of the hostages and a gun... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
Boko Haram   Cameroon   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Nigerian Sharia conflict  


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